This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary
studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and
print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the
ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities
engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery,
natural knowledge, democracy, and religion. In addition, the book
also considers the ways in which material texts and genres,
including, for example, the essay, the guidebook, the travel
narrative, the periodical, the novel, and the poem, can be
scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic
transitions, transformations, and border crossings. The volume is
underpinned by a thorough examination of historical and conceptual
frameworks and prioritizes notions of circulation and exchange, as
opposed to transfer and continuance, in its analysis of authors,
texts, and ideas. The collection is concerned with the movement of
people, texts, and ideas in the currents of transatlantic markets
and politics, taking a fresh look at a range of canonical and
popular writers of the period, including Austen, Poe, Crevecoeur,
Brockden Brown, Sedgwick, Hemans, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens, and
Melville. In different ways, the essays gathered together here are
concerned with the potentially empowering realities of the
transitive, circulatory, and contingent experiences of
transatlantic literary and cultural production as they are manifest
in the long nineteenth century.
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